Collaborate Disseminate
Ever since wealthy European landowners started displaying vast, unused swaths of turfgrass as status symbols, regular folk have been chasing that perfectly mown and tended lawn for similar reasons. In …read more Continue reading A Special Type of Mower For Rocky Fields
As anyone who takes medicines regularly will attest to, the days have a tendency to blur together, making it hard to remember if you did something like take that day’s …read more Continue reading Medication Reminder Uses Only One Button
The fjords of Norway are world famous for their beauty, but even though the word itself is Norwegian, there are fjords all over the world in areas that used to …read more Continue reading Camping on Unconventional Watercraft
Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit …read more Continue reading Three Arduinos Team Up To Make 80s-Style Computer
Engineering design makes all kinds of tradeoffs. Power trades off with torque, strength trades off with weight, and cost can trade off with quality. For designing a hydroelectric turbine, one …read more Continue reading Low Head Turbine Generates Plenty of Power
The overall adoption and implementation of Wayland — intended as a replacement for the decades-old X11 windowing system — in the Linux world has been full of fits and starts. …read more Continue reading Wayland Comes to Minecraft
Streaming services have enabled many of us to have easy access to the world’s media library at the touch of a screen, but [Coconauts] thinks we’ve lost something along the …read more Continue reading NFC Record Player Promotes Intentional Listening
In between the Nixie tube era of the 50s and 60s and the advent of multi-digit vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) common in 80s and 90s consumer technology, there was a …read more Continue reading Salvaged VFDs in Nixie-Like Clock
Before the modern trifecta of video game giants came to dominate the market around two decades ago, the world was awash in video game consoles. Many of these retro platforms …read more Continue reading Restoring a 3DO Blaster Card from the Early 90s
Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more Continue reading Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules